Channel Consulting Ltd.

Scientific Computing
Software Engineering

TriGrid/Win32 Distribution Centre

As with all other TriGrid programs, the full capacity of these distributions are only
supplied under a licencing agreement. Without a licence, the programs will run in demonstration
mode, with a limit of 2,000 nodes in the resulting grids.

If you are using an ftp program to do the transfers, please remember to transfer in binary
mode.

Each setup is distributed as a single file, too large for a single floppy disk. If you need
to transfer to another computer via floppy disk, we recommend using an archiving utility like
PKZip or the backup command to create a multi-disk archive, which can then be used to effect the
transfer.

Licence

TriGrid/Win32 as installed will run as a demonstration (or student) version limited
to 2,000 nodes. The configurations supplied can be extended to 50,000 or 250,000 nodes, once a
combined hardware and software licence key is provided and installed. Please contact us at
Channel to obtain this if required.

Older distributions are described below

There are two distributions here, one configured for up to 50,000 nodes, and another for up
to 250,000 nodes. You also need to ensure that you have the required system files (see
below). Each of these
distributions is the same size, but you need more memory resources on your system to run the
250,000 node version, so it is worth choosing the 50,000 node version if this will suffice. You
can change from one to the other at any time, or you have both installed (but in different
locations).

When each setup file has been transferred to a scratch directory on
the target computer (see below for transfer hints), it should be run to perform the
installation. When running the setup, the last step says that your system will be rebooted. This
is only necessary if you are running with a hardware key supplied by Channel. To prevent
rebooting your computer, either press the "Cancel" button in the setup dialog, or the "No"
button in the "Shut Down Windows" dialog that is displayed before shutting down the computer.

In addition, you may need to install some library files to support Digital Visual
Fortran (5.0a) and Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0. These files are provided in a separate setup, as
they are only needed once, and not by all users.

The system library files (may not be needed by all users) are provided in file
ftp://ftp.channel.bc.ca/pub/TriGrid/Win32/setup-sys99.exe (~1.1Mb).
The system files required to support the TG97 distribution are all placed into the MS Windows
system directory (usually c:\windows\system). The required files and their creation dates are: DFORMD.DLL
(4 August 1997), MFC42.DLL (31 January 1997), and MSVCRT.DLL (22 January 1997). You will need a version of these files that is of the same date or
newer than each of these files. If you already have these files, you do not need to get them
again.